“The Central Park Five” 1989
This is one of sixteen photos I took which were included in the recent documentary by Ken Burns and his daughter Sarah.
“The Central Park Five” was about the kids who were framed to take the fall for the rape and severe beating of a woman in Central Park back in 1989. Big story, and this image was a surprise to say the least…
©Matt Weber
Times Sq. 1988
© Matt Weber
NYC 1988
My only memories of November 22d 1963 are that I was sitting in front of large black & white TV trying desperately to find my favorite show,” Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse”. Five years later the RFK assassination found me once again in front of a TV and watching him murdered, was and is one of my most indelible childhood memories…
©Matt Weber
“The Minnesota Strip” 1989
Back in the 1970s the stretch on 8th Ave. north of the port authority, was called “The Minnesota Strip” because of the large amount of runaway teens (from the mid-west) that would get off the bus and wander up 8th Ave. Often these kids were preyed upon instantly as they got off the Greyhound bus by the local pimps, and within days they were selling their bodies for their new employers…
All Photos © Matt Weber
This is the photo Joe Lhota stole from me!
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